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Now live: SemiotiX New Series, a WordPress-based e-journal

April 20, 2010 1 Comment

Now online: SemiotiX New Series, an e-journal in semiotics. SemiotiX Bulletin has been around for several years, in hand-edited HTML.…

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Posted in: Software, WordPress

Subtitles in ELAN and beyond

November 4, 2009 1 Comment

ELAN is a tool for creating complex annotations on video and audio resources. It’s great for doing the hard work…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Software

Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals

September 20, 2009 1 Comment

Not all linguists may be aware of this, but since 2007 there has been a Unified Style Sheet for publications…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Software, Zotero

Dashboard Post-it: leave notes on the WordPress dashboard

May 1, 2009 21 Comments

Dashboard Post-it is a simple plugin for WordPress 2.7 and higher that allows you to leave yourself or other authors…

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Zotero 1.5 is here: synchronization and tons of other features

February 24, 2009 3 Comments

It’s here. Zotero 1.5 beta. The new version comes with built-in synchronization, exports to more than 1100 citation styles, and…

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Posted in: Software, Zotero

Phonology Assistant

January 1, 2009 Leave a comment

Phonology Assistant (PA) is a free phonology tool by SIL that (as of version 3.0) works interactively with the data…

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Posted in: Fieldwork, Linguistics, Software

12 must know Zotero tips and techniques

November 30, 2008 48 Comments

Zotero is getting better and better. In a while, version 1.5 will bring synchronization, online backup of your library, +1100…

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Posted in: Zotero Filed under: productivity, software, tips, zotero

Wordle now does Extended Latin and diacritics

October 22, 2008 2 Comments

Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don’t work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Siwu, Software, Visualization

Now serving you from ideophone.org

August 8, 2008 Leave a comment

The Ideophone has found a new home at https://ideophone.org/. Links to the old pages should still work, but I would…

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Zotero Sync Preview

July 10, 2008 Leave a comment

Exciting news for Zotero users: synchronization has arrived. After some months of closed beta-testing, a public Sync Preview version was…

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Posted in: Software, Zotero

More visualizations

June 24, 2008 Leave a comment

A visualization of the previous two posts on Many Eyes and Siwu ne Because recursivity is a Good Thing, here…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Software, Visualization

Many Eyes on Siwu ne

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Lots of readers looked at the challenge I posted last week (my blog statistics say more than 450 views for…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Siwu, Software, Visualization

Visual corpus linguistics with Many Eyes

June 14, 2008 10 Comments

I recently came across Many Eyes, a nifty data visualisation tool by IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. It has lots of…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Siwu, Software, Visualization

Done well: WALS Online

April 23, 2008 7 Comments

Note: An updated version of this review was published in eLanguage on July 15th, 2008. However, that e-journal has not…

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Posted in: Linguistics, Software

The etymology of Zotero

January 25, 2008 7 Comments

Zotero takes it name from an Albanian verb minus some morphology.

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Posted in: doi, Linguistics, Zotero Filed under: etymology

Zotero, an Endnote alternative

January 24, 2008 32 Comments

I wasn’t planning to make this a software weblog, but I’ll make an exception for Zotero because I think fellow…

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Posted in: Software, Zotero Filed under: productivity, zotero

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